Re: LyX Window placed in the upper left corner

[Peter Kümmel]

Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:30:00AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
>>> BTW, I see that no \screen_geometry_* variables are ever written to
>>> preferences, at least with qt3.
>> Time... I plan(ned) to add xysaved, and fixed height/width to the
>> preference dialog.
> 
> I really don't care about them. I do care for the -geometry option,
> though :(
> 

Does this patch help?



Index: qt3/lyx_gui.C
===================================================================
--- qt3/lyx_gui.C       (revision 14120)
+++ qt3/lyx_gui.C       (working copy)
@@ -234,11 +234,12 @@
 
        view.init();
                
-       view.setGeometry(posx, posy, width, height);
+       if (posx != -1 && posy != -1) {
+               view.setGeometry(posx, posy, width, height);
+               if (maximize)
+                       view.setWindowState(Qt::WindowMaximized);
+       }
 
-       if (maximize)
-               view.setWindowState(Qt::WindowMaximized);
-
        view.show();
 
        // FIXME: some code below needs moving
Index: qt4/lyx_gui.C
===================================================================
--- qt4/lyx_gui.C       (revision 14120)
+++ qt4/lyx_gui.C       (working copy)
@@ -240,11 +240,12 @@
 
        view.init();
                
-       view.setGeometry(posx, posy, width, height);
+       if (posx != -1 && posy != -1) {         
+               view.setGeometry(posx, posy, width, height);
+               if (maximize)
+                       view.setWindowState(Qt::WindowMaximized);
+       }
 
-       if (maximize)
-               view.setWindowState(Qt::WindowMaximized);
-
        view.show();
 
        // FIXME: some code below needs moving